Quotes from John Milton
Me thought I saw my late espoused saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.
- John Milton
It was the winter wild while the Heav'n-born child all meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
- John Milton
Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
- John Milton
What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?
- John Milton
The never-ending flight of future days.
- John Milton
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd to hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, on evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round, and solitude.
- John Milton
At certain revolutions all the damn'd are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
- John Milton
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
- John Milton
Rather than be less car'd not to be at all.
- John Milton
Morn, wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand unbarr'd the gates of light.
- John Milton
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old when all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones forget not.
- John Milton
My race of glory run, and race of shame, and I shall shortly be with them at rest.
- John Milton